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A bit of both. Receivers do need to block at times, and do a good job at it. Joe Brady needs to be way less predictable with his plays and make those in-game adjustments faster. For whatever reason he decided to unleash Johnson and Cook as WRs against the Bucs, like the fan base has been screaming to do, and it worked. I hope he considers some pre-snap motion plays for Thursday. Have to make the Texans defense think a bit. You don't want them running downhill like the Falcons and Dolphins were.

I voted no. He can grow up. Bills need to accept he's not a WR1. He's a slot receiver, with *some* plays lined up wide. Bills will need to get creative to have both he and Shakir on the field at the same time. Bills, like most teams, can make mistakes is not playing rookies to their strengths as they develop. Elam was never going to be a zone corner. Coleman isn't a WR1.

I suspect there's things to correct here because when the team comes out flat, it's usually on the road. From the 2025 NFLPA Report Card on the Bills team travel: Note: In 2023, it was a D+. In 2024, team travel was a D, 25th in the league.

The Buccaneers and Dolphins frequently utilized pre-snap motion, often catching the defense out of position. That can be fixed.

Let's play some *more* zone.

Yep, I agree. I think the report cards are interesting to fans, and useful to players. The Bills ranked 23rd in the 2025 edition. Many Bs, one A (for weight room) but a C in Training Staff (surprise!) and an F in Team Travel (Shocker #2). The Bills were ranked 32 out of 32 in team travel.

The NFL filed a grievance against the NFL Players Association, asking the union to stop its annual team report cards and saying the exercise violates the collective bargaining agreement by airing public criticism of teams, according to documents obtained by ESPN.

The Bills' in-house strength and conditioning program is a clear liability. I wouldn’t be surprised if their travel logistics and approach to managing fatigue, disruption and acclimation are equally flawed. When the McDermott-led Bills come out flat, it is almost always the road games. An example of this occurred in 2023, when the team arrived in London just two days before their game against the Jaguars. They sleptwalk through that game and lost it. Jet lag for a trip from the US to Europe is a couple days for most people. I don't think arriving in Miami on a Friday afternoon provides players with nearly enough time to adjust to exertion in the humidity and heat. We also have no idea whether these players get the sleep they should, or they are up all night.

I'll play the game. Head coach: Not so much a specific person in mind, but a quality I'd like to see is a coach (and staff) comfortable with adapting to changing circumstances from season to season and insid the games. More tacticians, less process. Tired of somewhat mindlessly following the "installed" game plan. Front office: Believe the draft profiles. If a consensus of draft profiles say the same thing about a player, believe the detail to be accurate, good or bad.

Yes they would. Playoffs is a new season, and KC's team is full of killers. Bad weather part of the season starts now, and it remains to be seen whether this NE team can play in the cold and lousy weather. That's also why I don't buy the Colts just yet. Bills have the best cold weather/bad weather QB in the AFC, and perhaps the league.

The extra lineman is effective when the Bills have a lead and you need to gain yards on the ground and eat up clock. I like what the Rams do with the 13 personnel. I'd use Knox, Hawes and Coleman (or Davis) as the TEs. I think defenses would have a hard time defending that.

It's partly him (he looks like he absolutely hates to do any blocking) but I also don't think the Bills use his skills properly. He's not a WR1. He's more of a slot or TE. He's not beating CB1 coverage, but he can beat other coverages. It's not Coleman's problem that the Bills WR room is all slot and gadget receivers. He'd be good at the "Travis Kelce, just run around out there" route.

It easily gets my vote for McDermott's worst game because of the lack of preparation (42 pass attempts in bad weather) and the team's lack of interest and effort. 13 Seconds was bad but the team showed up for that game.

No. The January 22, 2023 playoff loss to the Bengals at HOME remains the worst loss IMO. Win and get to the Championship Game. Nobody in the Bills organization came to play football that day. Yesterday's game was a copy of that game.

Stale is a great word to describe it. The defense knows what's coming. Miami's defense was playing with zero hesitation yesterday. Happened with Dorsey too. Dorsey's offense was good until the defenses caught up to it. Bills went on heater last year in part because defenses had no film on Brady's offense, especially the use of the extra lineman. Now they do.